MAVERICK from Belfast, Northern Ireland, will release their second album on METALAPOLIS RECORDS! After their tour Europe with THE POODLES in October 2015,  the band started to work on this album. "Big Red" will be released on August 26^th, 2016. The song "Asylum", which will also be released as a video, shows guest performances by THE POODLES vocalist Jakob Samuel as well as a guitar solo from former ALICE COOPER guitarist Kane Roberts

UNBOUND to tour Europe with SIX FEET UNDER!

The Doomcore outfit UNBOUND, which released their 3rd album "Wicked world" in 2015, will hit the road as the mainsupport for SIX FEET UNDER in July.

Here are the dates:

30.06. NL  Rotterdam - Baroeg

02.07. GER Flensburg - Roxy

03.07. GER Rostock - Alte Zuckerfabrik

04.07. GER Hamburg - Bambi Galore

05.07. GER München - Backstage

06.07. A   Innsbruck - PMK

07.07. GER Ludwigsburg - Rockfabrik

08.07. CH  Pratteln - Z7

09.07. GER Essen - Turock

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PRESS RELEASE

The VIVALDI METAL PROJECT is a music creation born from an idea conceived and developed by Italian keyboard player, composer and producer MISTHERIA (solo artist, Bruce Dickinson, Rob Rock, Roy Z, Artlantica).

Product: Vivaldi Metal Project – The Four Seasons

Release date: July 22^nd, 2016

Label: Pride & Joy Music (world-wide, excluding Japan)

Trailer: https://youtu.be/YBFaqkvzaIg

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The project is a symphonic-metal opera based on Antonio Vivaldi’s Baroque masterwork “The Four Seasons”, featuring more than 130 amazing metal and classical artists, orchestra, a string quartet and three choirs from all over the world. The album features 14 tracks - all the movements from Antonio Vivaldi's original score plus two original new songs written by MISTHERIA. The impressive roster of artists probably makes this titanic album the biggest all-star project ever!

Back in 2013, MISTHERIA started thinking about making a metal version of “The Four Seasons”, a masterpiece that he loved and kept listening to since his childhood. MISTHERIA started to play and record all the movements on the piano but then felt that a parallel symphonic-metal version would have been the perfect continuation. Therefore, he recorded and uploaded a short trailer on the web to start engaging musicians. A few days later, Italian bassist and composer Alberto Rigoni (solo artist, TwinSpirits, Kim Bingham, The Italians, BADASS), who had already collaborated with Mistheria by recording bass on his previous solo album “Dragon Fire”, learned about the project and contacted MISTHERIA offering his support to work on the project as co-producer. Also, MISTHERIA made the “innovative” choice - never done so far - to add lyrics and singers to “The Four Seasons” which, as composed by Vivaldi, is an instrumental work. For this important task, he invited Douglas R. Docker who perfectly translated the producer's concept into brilliant lyrics. Additional lyrics were written by Mistheria, Rob Rock and Lance King.

A cast of 10 awesome arrangers joined MISTHERIA creating epic and memorable music, combining a standard metal band lineup with strings, orchestra and choir:Douglas R. Docker, Francesco Dall’O’, Frank Caruso, Gabriels, Keiko Kumagai, Nicolas Waldo, Pawel Penksa, Tomas Varnagiris, Yannis Androulakakis and Zhivko Koev.

The cast furthermore includes performances by Mark Boals (Malmsteen, Royal Hunt), Fabio Lione (Rhapsody of Fire, Angra), Edu Falaschi (Almah), Rob Rock (Impellitteri), Mike Lepond (SymhonyX), Dani Löble (Helloween), Ruud Jolie (Within Temptation), Mark Cross (Firewind, Scorpions), Steve Di Giorgio (Testament), Rolf Pilve (Stratovarius), Victor Smolski (Rage, Almanac), Ruben Israel (Delain), John Macaluso (ARK), Marco Sfogli (James Labrie), Chris Caffery (Savatage), Mark Wood (Trans Siberian Orchestra), Dirk Verbeuren (Soilwork), Atma Anur (Tony MacAlpine), Vitalij Kuprij, Anna Portalupi (Tarja Turunen), Sean Tibbetts (Kamelot), Martijn Peters (Stream of Passion) and many more.

It took more than 2 years of intensive non-stop hard work to get the album done. Mixed and mastered by Ivan Moni Bidin at “Artesonika” recording studio in Italy and assisted by Fabio D'Amore, the album is a full 74 minutes of intense, passionate, fascinating, powerful and majestic experience!

Production, ideation, concept and artistic direction by MISTHERIA. Co-produced by Alberto Rigoni.

www.vivaldimetalproject.com / www.mistheria.com / www.albertorigoni.net 

The pre-sale for the CD digi-pack will start during this week. The download on iTunes and the first instant grat for the track “The Age Of Dreams” already is available at this link: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/the-four-seasons/id1117818690

A double vinyl release of “The Four Seasons” will be scheduled for a release in September.

The PR campaign will start via Haulix on Wednesday, June 1^st with additional promo CD’s available in ~ mid June. Mistheria and Alberto Rigoni will be available for interviews as well – please send us your requests!

One of the UK’s finest Melodic Rock bands, DARE, will return with their brand new studio album “SACRED GROUND” on July 15^th, 2016 via Legend Records!

The digital part of the PR will start via Haulix during the next week! Please send us your requests!

Product: Dare – Sacred Ground

Release date: July 15th, 2016

Label: Legend Records

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Fronted by singer songwriter Darren Wharton (who first rose to fame in the early eighties playing keyboards with legendary Irish rock band Thin Lizzy), DARE are one of the most respected and innovative melodic rock bands working today, gaining cult status among AOR fans throughout Europe, the UK and the world. The band’s debut 1989 album ‘Out Of The Silence’ recorded at Joni Mitchell’s Bel Air Studio Los Angeles, and produced by Nickelback  producer Mike Shipley is still widely regarded today as one of the all time great AOR albums.

Darren joined Philip Lynott’s  Thin Lizzy  at the tender age of eighteen and enjoyed 5 great years with the band touring extensively, alongside  renowned guitarist Scott Gorham, drummer Brian Downey, guitarists Snowy White (Pink Floyd),  Gary Moore and John Sykes (Whitesnake).  Working closely with Philip Lynott, Darren also recorded classic Thin Lizzy albums, such as ‘Chinatown’, ‘Renegade’, and ‘Thunder and Lightning’ on which Wharton co-wrote 3 songs, including the hit single ‘The Sun Goes Down’.  Sadly, the latter was to be Thin Lizzy’s last studio album, and in 1986 Darren Wharton returned to his home town of Manchester where, as an outlet for his creative flare for song writing and working with young Oldham guitarist Vinny Burns, he formed his own band, DARE.

Darren re-joined Thin Lizzy in 1994 and the band continues to tour extensively around the world to rapturous fans and huge audiences. The band recently completed a big tour of the USA with Judas Priest and recently supported Guns ‘n’ Roses in the UK as well as scores of major festival shows.

Wharton’s style of song writing, modern anthemic rock with Celtic overtones, coupled with the bands powerful live performances throughout Europe and the UK ( Sweden Rock,  BYH Festival Germany)  have gained Dare the reputation as a bright force on the British rock scene. SACRED GROUND is the bands much awaited 7^th studio album; a modern classic, original, yet instantly addictive. It features some of Wharton’s  most mature song writing to date.  Thought provoking and passionate….whilst still retaining a dark rock edge. As the band’s Worldwide fan base eagerly anticipate the new album, Sacred Ground is destined to be another classic album by AOR Rock legends  DARE.

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Line-up:

Darren Wharton - Vocals & Keyboards

Vinny Burns - Guitars

Kevin Whitehead - Drums

Nigel Clutterbuck - Bass

Marc Roberts – Keys (live)

Swedish Glam Rock pioneers EASY ACTION release their new digital single “Drop The Bomb” on Monty Music today!

The band says about this track: “It's been ten years, almost to the day, since we played our comeback show at the Sweden Rock Festival. I turned out to be a special day for all of us. A recently retrieved hard drive with multi cam pro shot video allowed us to go back to that day in 2006 and present a taste of the album that was started in 2009 but never completed. Let's DROP THE BOMB! A thank you and goodbye from Simon, Grizzly, Kee and Zinny. For Michael.”

The single and video ”Drop The Bomb" is out NOW!

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXgo05qh4TQ&feature=youtu.be

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3qEI5aEky5mLLq8LqUwfIT

iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/…/drop-the-bomb-single/id1107401959

Also released today, for the first time on digital platforms, are the two songs we recorded with Chris Laney at Polar Studios in 2008. A re-recording of ”We Go Rocking” and the Zan/Marcello penned ”Jack’s Back”. How’s that for a Friday night huh..?

Play it loud!

iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/…/we-go-rocking-single/id1107399675

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7i9b7rvNs1jx3JowsJblom